TUNISIA’S BIGGEST MOBILE OPERATOR PARTNER AGREES WITH NOKIA TO DEPLOY 5G CLOUD MOBILE PROJECT

Good news for Tunisia, as Tunisian mobile operator, Ooredoo and Nokia agreed to partner in deploying a 5G cloud mobile project. The partnership was announced on October 30, 2019.

Ooredoo Tunisia is so far the country’s biggest mobile operator with reportedly over 8.8 million subscribers and over 40% market share. According to Ooredoo’s data use, excluding voice-only subscribers, has more than doubled over the last four years and is expected to triple by 2025 — driven largely by smartphone adoption and video usage, with a five-fold increase since 2015.

Nokia’s AirGile cloud-native core seeks to enable Ooredoo Tunisia’s 5G launch and speed the delivery of new services, so as to be able to help meet up with the demands of the subscribers. With the implementation of this project, the mobile network provider hopes that a new virtualised core infrastructure will harness the scalability, automation and agility afforded with cloud-native network solutions.

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Advertise your product with us.As a part of Nokia’s end-to-end 5G offering, Nokia’s cloud-native core solution is essential to running a 5G network and can be deployed in 4G networks today. The cloudification network elements allow rapid scaling in real-time to meet immediate capacity demands for consumers and enterprises, including time-sensitive services for enterprise automation or support for industrial internet of things (IIoT) sensors and devices; as well as innovative voice services, such as voice over LTE (VoLTE) and voice over broadband (VoBB).

Nokia AirGile cloud-native core, which includes VoLTE and Packet Core products; Nokia’s engineered Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure (NFVI), built using Nokia AirFrame cloud infrastructure, Nokia CloudBand cloud management and orchestration stack and Nokia Nuage Networks’ software-defined networking (SDN).

Deploying the cloud-native mobile core from Nokia is about preparing Ooredoo to meet future customer demands. It will enable us to be more agile in our response to their needs for everything from video capacity to VoLTE services. And it will enable us to offer them advanced 5G services such as support for industrial automation and IoT as these exciting technologies come to the Tunisian market,” says Hatem Mestiri, CTO of Ooredoo Tunisia